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B-173144 1 (1971-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkzp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RE TI CTED - RIt o o rbleaw d doa Dew.a tER AccotsntJmg Of~fice excepbt &n thie baeft act by til Ofic of CongraesionalR 1 5;/ 7 .COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNI Ts F WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 Dear Senator Schweiker: LM090546 In accordance with your request dated May 18, 1971, we examined into statements made to you by certain employees of 7 ,the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital, University Drive, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniA, concerning possible hospital mis- ,_ 4 management. VA has two hospitals in Pittsburgh, the Leech Farm Road VA Hospital and the University Drive VA Hospital./ The Uni- versity Drive VA Hospital is composed of two geographically separate divisions, the Oakland Division and the Aspinwall Division. As agreed with your office, our examination covered the following matters: (1) inappropriate use of purchase and hire (P&H) enlpl!Oees, (2) use of VA laboratory facilities for nonofficial purposes, (3) denial of hospital services to a veteran, and (4) occupancy of VA housekeeping quarters by fdimer employees. Our examination included discussions with VA Central Of- fice officials, University Drive VA Hospital officials, a field representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at Pittsburgh, and an official of the National Insti- tutes of Health. We reviewed VA regulations and examined VA records at the Central Office and at the University Drive VA Hospital. The results of our examination into each of the four matters are discussed in detail in the following sections. INAPPROPRIATE USE OF P&H EMPLOYEES The statement was made that P&H employees, assigned to work at the VA hospital, were working on non-VA jobs but nevertheless were paid by VA. We were furnished with a copy of a statement made by the Maintenance Supervisor of the En- gineering Division, University Drive VA Hospital, in which it was claimed that (1) the labor costs for certain P&H employ- ees had been charged against a project other than the one upon which work was actually performed and (2) although the Maintenance Supervisor had been charged with keeping labor job timecards for certain P&H employees, he did not have su- pervisory authority over them. 50 TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-1971 0?

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